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Back from Scottsdale, AZ

Ok so I'm going to go on again and say how cool Windows Live Writer is because right now, I'm on the flight back and I can put all my fun thoughts down before I forget them.  So, we're going to break this down into 4 main sections.  <note to self, update with a picture or two at description points... wish i had an usb cable!>

First, and most annoying is I lost my fucking sunglasses... seriously, those things were no more than a month old.  Now I have to go out to the store and drop another 200 bucks on another pair of sunglasses.  I don't mind spending money but in the last few years, spending money on sunglasses has been the most dreaded things cause they keep getting destroyed, lost, stolen or chewed up by the dogs.  So hopefully, Sunglass Hut will have some sympathy and let me recoup some cost with their replacement plans.

Secondly, funny quotes... the first is from Joe.  We're sitting around talking about movies and we ended up talking about Braveheart.  So let me give you some background on Joe.  All trip he would deny his involvement with things because of his man card membership (like really, what card carrying member of the man club would watch Pretty Woman and enjoy it?! ;)... Anyhow, we start talking about Braveheart cause of some bag pipe player on the golf course (which incidentally was amazing!  wish I a) brought my clubs b) didn't have a hurt arm and back and c) played golf well enough to go out there solo) and he goes and says how that's his favorite movie and it makes him cry every time.  But these were not normal tears, these were "huge drops of man tears".  So from now on, I shall only have huge drops of man tears, nothing else!  The second funny quote is from uhhh... I actually don't know her name, but we were all getting into a group photo and the photographer starts snapping away, and out of the blue I hear, "Don't worry Amber, we'll photoshop you a guy in later" ... Nearly lost it, it was that funny.

  Thirdly, clubs in Scottsdale blew!  We hit a couple of places and it just wasn't what I imagined especially with all the trouble the ASU cheerleaders get into ;) ... Either way, we did meet one other cool couple there but we lamed out and flaked on them after the wedding.   Other than that, it was dead.  Word has it the students were all out of there for the summer thus it was only the locals left.  Oh well!

And lastly, the ceremony was lovely and I couldn't be happier for my friends Claire and Lloyd.   I think I'm the only one remaining in our core group of friends here in Seattle that isn't married.  Not sure how I feel about that yet, but right now, I'm not sure I care.  USC is next weekend with BT and Tiesto coming to town!  Gonna rock.

And in closing, it was a great trip except for the lost sunglasses and the weather.  Will have to make up a dinner to Lindsey cause it was her b-day and she was a good sport about it.  With that, peace out will have the pictures up from the trip shortly!!

It's mothers day… meh…

Couldn't really think of a better title believe it or not... So here I sigh at Bauhaus with my double tall, non fat, sugar free vanilla latte... Mouthful isn't it?!  Anyhow, it's been one of those weekends.  Not only did I know accomplish jack shit but I think I did more damage than good on this weekend.  But frankly, I don't feel like talking about that right now;  hell, I don't even wanna think about it right now, thus why I am sitting at Bauhaus.

Let's see what has happened lately... Work was rough this week.  We had to do presentations on Friday and we prepped them all week.  There is something about demos and presentations that make people wait to the last minute to do them which means, at the VERY last minute you will re-order, and that of course leads to the inevitable fact that 10 minutes before you go on, your demo will be in jeopardy of breaking.  And as if on clockwork, all those things happened, in that exact order.  Oh well, no big, it all went down fine and it was tight.

Oh, tech blog that I was going to do.  First off, I did set up the hotspot by my Starbucks and I've already had a handful of people register to use it.  I thought it would be a difficult process but there are people way smarter than me out there and many people like me that have done it.  So all I really had to do was install CoovaAP on my wrt54g, an d  configure some pages, fix a bug (which hopefully will make it into their next build, if not, just search their forums for RFC compliant for SMTP and you'll see the workaround).  So yeah, that's it.  Install, configure, and plug in.  The only problem is I don't have the saturation I want that far away, so I'm going to get a bigger antenna when I save up some money.

What else, oh I have a wedding come up in like 2 weeks.  Should be a fun trip.  We'll be headed to Arizona for Claire and Lloyd's (CLloyd for short) wedding.  Never been there so it should be an interesting trip.

Oh well, I really think that's about it.  Let me insert a random picture into here and we shall end this post ;)